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The first‑round vote in Brazil’s presidential race shows the incumbent and the challenger heading to a runoff. For quantitative traders, the political uncertainty creates short‑term market dislocations and longer‑term shifts in risk premia across the real‑exchange rate, sovereign spreads, and commodity exposures. This article connects the event to core corporate risk‑management concepts and shows how to translate political risk into actionable position sizing and stop‑loss rules. Political Uncertainty as a Quantifiable Risk Factor Political outcomes affect macro variables that feed directly into pricing models for currencies, sovereign debt, and commodities. A runoff election doubles the time horizon for policy resolution, extending the period during which markets price divergent scenarios....