Few news/updates :
1 - Monday, Coinone (biggest korean exchange) is listing xrp. And is removing buying fees on XRP.
2 - Sometime next week, Bitbank (chinese coinbase) is listing xrp as well.
3 - Ripple is probably gonna announce soon most likely at their 2017 consensus (May 22-24, 2017) that they will freeze the 61.6 Billions coins which are not in the market.
4 - Ripple network updates allow the protocol to process as many transactions as Visa in the same time span, but at much cheaper cost
5 - This one needs to taken with cautious but there is rumors about Coinbase adding XRP as well in a near future.
XRP value went up by a lot lately and lot of people seems to think there is a need for a price correction.
But imo, XRP is not even at the price it needs to be. Low price means more volatility and that's something they don't want.
This is not a trading advice, just a personal TA and opinion.
Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think.
Trade safe.