Sterling has crashed as low as $1.0350 as Asian markets opened to trade while some analysts warn it could sink to parity with the greenback.
England will return to its national football stadium on Sunday to play Italy, competing in its first final since the 1966 World Cup. That remains England’s only international title.
Sterling advanced against both the dollar and euro, while both London and Paris ended little changed.
Sterling's dramatic gains saw it reach a 19-month high versus the dollar and its strongest levels against the euro since shortly after the 2016 Brexit referendum.
The attack occurred in the early hours of Sunday as a group of teenagers left a Virginia mosque after attending late-night prayers.
With the exit poll indicating that Therese May's Conservative Party would not get the outright majority she sought to give her the authority to negotiate Brexit.
These protests are sparked by fatal shooting of two black men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, by the police in Louisiana and Minnesota.
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