I imagine a lot of speculators are already buying up bitcoin in anticipation of a price rise.....
The price already started going up because of the halving (as well as a lot of other things, including the Classic bullshit dying and so the Core roadmap looking good for the future). Things are getting cooked up nicely and we will have 0.12 soon which will be an huge improvement. ATH this year gets broken.
How do you attribute the halving to the recent price increase? There has been some positive news coming out recently in the Press, that might have increased investor confidence, but the Halvening is pure speculation at this time. I think we should rather avoid hyping the Halvening and just see what will happen.
A lot of things can still happen until then.