ellen zentner, morgan stanley's chief u.s. economist, joining us now to give her reaction. re your thoughts on that number? ellen: i think the services side of the u.k. and of europe is going to be following behind the services side of the u.s., where we saw a reopening earlier and a lot of that pent-up demand come through, and that squeeze with price pressures coming out of that. it reflects rising sentiment, rising activity, but demand always picks up, and especially when you have pent-up demand build over more than a year's time, that can come through immediately, but it takes time to open up capacity to meet all of that demand. so very similar price pressures in europe as to what we have been seeing in the u.s., and it is probably going to continue for longer than expected. alix: for the data in the u.s., new orders hit a record and pricing at a record. do the new orders stay strong enough to be able to pass on some kind of price increases to offset those rising input costs? ellen: i think they do. there is another element of being able to pass on the prices to the end-u