There are a few reasons why BTC price is rising and definitely the CME news play a part. The other significant reason is because of the upcoming fork.
We have seen two forks in the previous days. 1 august fork made a huge increase in bitcoin and also BTG made a huge increase in bitcoin as well. This is showing that upcoming fork will make the price even higher possibly.
there a lot of factor actually include the fork , some massive adoption that all of them leading to a big demand on bitcoin where nowadays to earn bitcoin itself are so hard. a lot of people also getting more curious to know more about bitcoin and decide to buy bitcoin for the sake of to give a shot. pretty clear enough isn't it?