Qurate Retail, Inc. Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Investments In Available-For-Sale Securities And Other Cost Investments (Tables)

Investments In Available-For-Sale Securities And Other Cost Investments (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Investments In Available-For-Sale Securities And Other Cost Investments

Investments In Available-For-Sale Securities And Other Cost Investments

	June 30,	December 31,
	2011	2010
	amounts in millions
Capital Group
Time Warner Inc. (1)(2)	$ 453	1,101
Time Warner Cable Inc. (1)(2)	244	567
Sprint Nextel Corporation ("Sprint") (1)	248	301
Motorola Solutions (1)(3)	341	471
Motorola Mobility (1)(3)	143	--
Viacom, Inc.	387	301
Live Nation (4)	25	389
Century Link, Inc. (1)	148	248
Priceline (1)	267	208
Other AFS equity securities (1)(2)	43	100
SIRIUS XM debt securities	389	384
Other AFS debt securities	222	404
Other cost investments and related receivables	8	9
Total attributed Capital Group	2,918	4,483
Interactive Group
Time Warner Inc. (2)	$ 792	--
Time Warner Cable Inc. (2)	427	--
Other (2)	42	1
Total attributed Interactive Group	1,261	1
Starz Group
Other	65	67
Total attributed Starz Group	65	67

Consolidated Liberty	$ 4,244	4,551

(1) Includes shares pledged as collateral for share borrowing arrangements. See note 8.

(2) As discussed in note 2, certain of these securities were reattributed from the Capital Group to the Interactive Group in the first quarter of 2011.

(3) Effective January 4, 2011 Motorola, Inc. separated Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. in a 1 for 8 stock distribution. Motorola, Inc. simultaneously completed a 1 for 7 reverse stock split and was renamed Motorola Solutions, Inc.

(4) In June 2011, the Company acquired an additional 5.5 million shares of Live Nation for $58 million. The additional ownership requires the Company to account for the investment as an equity method affiliate. For additional discussion see footnote 7. Liberty continues to hold debt securities in Live Nation which are included in available-for-sale securities.

Unrealized Holdings Gains And Losses


	June 30, 2011		December 31, 2010
	Equity	Debt	Equity	Debt
	securities	securities	securities	securities
	amounts in millions

Gross unrealized holding gains	$ 2	66	32	66
Gross unrealized holding losses	$ --	--	--	--

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Tabular disclosure of the realized and unrealized gains and losses reported in the statement of income which have resulted from the sale and holding of marketable securities, respectively, as well as the sale or disposal of cost method investments. Such amounts would include realized gains and losses on the sale or disposal of trading, available-for-sale, and held-to-maturity securities, unrealized gains and losses on trading securities, unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale and held-to-maturity securities transferred to the trading securities category, realized gains and losses on the sale or disposal of cost method investments, and losses recognized for other than temporary impairments (OTTI) of such investments.

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