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"The lease residual-value risk in general remains Ford Motor Credit's biggest asset-quality wild card, " says Glenn Reynolds of the credit analysis firm CreditSights.

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Although returns have been quite good this year, the net asset value of these funds, which is tied to the quality of the underlying loans, has been slipping for several months, according to Morningstar, a fund-analysis service.

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