(Reuters) - Job openings were harder to come by in April as private-sector hiring ebbed, more evidence that the labor market is precarious, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday. There were 3.97 million open positions in April, down from 4.07 million in March, according to the government's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). The hiring rate dipped to 3.0 percent from 3.1 percent.

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(Reuters) - China should guard against risks from "excessive" holdings of U.S. assets as Washington could pursue a policy to weaken the dollar, a senior currency regulator said in comments published on a website that briefly pushed the dollar lower. However, the comments by Guan Tao of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange were quickly removed from the website at his request. He told Reuters the comments had been made in private academic discussions and represented his personal view only.

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(Reuters) - Data storage firm EMC Ltd has offered to replace millions of potentially compromised "SecurID" electronic keys after hackers used data stolen from its RSA security division to break into Lockheed Martin's network. Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon's No. 1 arms supplier and the government's top information technology provider, was attacked last month by hackers, underscoring a growing threat to U.S. national security.

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(Reuters) - Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher said on Tuesday there was ample liquidity in the U.S. financial system and no need for the U.S. central bank to continue its extremely easy monetary policy. Interviewed on CNBC television, Fisher said U.S. businesses' balance sheets were in good shape and companies were awaiting clearer signs about how the economy will develop before they kick up the pace of hiring. "This is going to be a very slow process, and right now we need to get the fiscal side" lined up, Fisher said.

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(Reuters) - HSBC (HSBA.L) said it agreed to pay $62.5 million to settle a class action brought against it in the United States over its role in providing administrative services to a fund which placed cash with Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff. The action was brought by investors in Thema International Fund, which transferred a net $312 million to Madoff, Europe's biggest bank said on Tuesday.

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(Reuters) - General Electric Co (GE.N) and Capital One Financial Corp (COF.N) have submitted bids for ING's (ING.AS)(ING.N) U.S. online banking operations in a deal worth about $9 billion, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. ING may reach an agreement to sell ING Direct USA this month, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. It said GE has submitted an all-cash bid, while Capital One's bid would be partly in shares.

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(Reuters) - Americans are fed up with poor customer service, with 64 percent walking out of stores due to poor assistance and 67 percent hanging up on a call before their problems are even addressed, according to a new survey. The most annoying gripe is not being able to get a person on the phone, followed by rude salespeople, according to findings from a Consumer Reports survey issued on Tuesday.

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(Reuters) - Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs unveiled services for people to store more of their photos, music and other data online, giving the iPad and iPhone maker the lead in a fast-expanding new consumer market. Jobs entered to a standing ovation from more than 5,000 Apple faithful at its Worldwide Developers' Conference on Monday and showed off Apple products meant to help customers keep their iPhones, iPads and computers in sync.

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(Reuters) - The S&P 500 hit a more than two-month low on Monday as U.S. stocks extended a five-week decline on signs of a slowing economy. Banks were among the hardest-hit sectors, with the S&P financial sector index .GSPF down 1 percent. "This seems like a continuation of sentiment from last week, where investors are coming to the realization that the economy is not growing as strongly as once anticipated," said Wasif Latif, vice president of equity investments at USAA Investment Management in San Antonio, Texas.

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(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc could release documents to counter a Senate subcommittee report that said the bank misled clients about mortgage-linked securities, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Goldman, facing probes by several government authorities into derivatives trades it executed in 2006 and 2007, could release documents about its mortgage bets to show the analysis by the subcommittee was inaccurate and incomplete, the paper said.

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