I dont't think we're going to see any major movements in Bitcoin until mid-january, reason being is that it's the holidays and people are doing their own thing during this time of the year. Same thing happened last year, price went down in the december.

About XRP, I'm no sure what exactly is going on, seems like japan and korea are the ones pumping the price thanks to the news of some asian banks testing Ripple. Personally, I wouldn't like to see a completely centralized cryptocurrency supported by the banking system as the next ruler of the crypto market, but by the looks of it, it could happen.
Btw, Ripple's current uptrend doesn't mean that it's becoming more popular, it just means that either its price went up (the market can be ridiculous sometimes) or more ripples that were already pre mined were introduced into the market, so there wouldn't a correlation to its popularity.