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Kat Wong

Rate cut prospects up in the air as labour market cools

The unemployment rate is stable at 3.9 per cent for the second consecutive month. (Jane Dempster/AAP PHOTOS)

Borrowers are holding out hope for a rate cut in coming months after jobs data signalled a cooling labour market.

The jobless rate held at 3.9 per cent for a second month as employment dropped by 65,000 and the number of unemployed Australians slipped by 1000, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released on Thursday revealed

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