I can sense the pressure from miners and pumpers to push it to $1000 just before New Year, if only because of the symbolism and perhaps a bit of Christmas commercial value. It will only be temporary though as artificial pumps go... but the ensuing slump will be just as temporary when btc resumes its slow climb to old heights.
I don't think artificial pumping has a thing to do with the surge in price, in the cryptocurrency world, it has been proven there is only bitcoin and the rest. Across the exchanges you can see prices of all other coins are headed south, while bitcoin faces the true north as the pioneer and revolutionary coin.
People across the globe can't help but buy into the money of the future, no thanks to the high inflationary rates burden the fiat currencies have saddled people with already and thank goodness for the respite and safe haven that bitcoin is. As I write, am looking at $902.41 to a bitcoin at CoinDesk, $1000 per BTC is a psychological level, that has been on the lips of many cryptographers, so it is already too late for market price not to get there any moment from now.