American Skiing (AESK.OB) Company Shuts Down
Prices for American Skiing Company (OTCBB: AESK) skyrocketed 50 percent yesterday after the company announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to sell its subsidiary, ASC Utah Inc., to the owner of The Canyons Talisker Canyons Finance Co. LLC for $100 million in cash.According to the most recent statement from the American Skiing Company, the sale of ASC Utah to Talisker Canyons Finance - a subsidiary of the Talisker Corporation - is part of the "planned disposition" of the last major resort assets of American Skiing Company. Although the companies agreed on $100 million in cash, the transaction is…