"Hearing Back" from FT IB process?

Hopefully some of the more experienced monkeys can shed some light to this situation that I'm facing.

It has been close to two weeks since I had a last-minute final round interview with an iBank for full-time analyst position(s). After my interview, I was told that I should hear back early the following week. Then they bumped the date to earlier this week. At this stage, should I just assume that I didn't make the cut? Some things I have considered is that... (1) the HR person had kept me updated last week about the delay, (2) HR mentioned that they need to consider "headcount", (3) since this was not a formal process maybe they have a longer period to make decisions.

What are your thoughts?

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