SQUAWK BOX, THURSDAY 19TH DECEMBER, 2019

The U.S. House of Representatives votes along party lines to impeach Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, making him the third president in history to be charged with the procedure. We analyse rate decisions from Japan and the UK, where central banks are expected to keep policy unchanged, while Sweden’s Riksbank is likely to finally abandon negative rates. The Queen prepares to re-open Parliament following last week’s general election with Brexit and the state of the NHS headlining Prime Minister Johnson’s new government agenda. And in U.S. corporate news, Micron Technology sees shares jump after the chipmaker beat quarterly estimates and hints a recovery is around the corner in 2020.