Oct 7 (Reuters) - Australian shares slipped on Friday, with all sectors but energy trading in negative territory, weighed down by recession fears as U.S. Federal Reserve officials showed little sign of slowing interest rate hikes.

The S&P/ASX 200 index fell 0.71% to 6,769.1 by 0013 GMT, but was on track to post its biggest weekly gain in nearly two years. The benchmark had closed flat on Thursday.

Stock markets across the globe have been on edge as Fed officials have dashed hopes for a pivot from a steady stream of rate hikes to fight inflation.

Investors are now looking to the U.S. jobs report and non-farm payrolls numbers for some clarity as to whether a steady diet of aggressive rate hikes has begun to take a bite out of the economy and soaring inflation.

In Australia, financials fell 1.1%, with the "big four" banks shedding about 1% each.

Interest rate-sensitive technology stocks slipped 1.1% after a sell-off on the tech-heavy Nasdaq.

Software firm Novonix tumbled 2.4% and Megaport slipped 3%.

Energy stocks jumped 1.2%, as oil prices rose overnight after OPEC+ agreed to tighten global supply with a deal to cut production targets by 2 million barrels per day (bpd) - the largest reduction since 2020.

Woodside Energy and Santos advanced 2.2% and 1.7%, respectively.

Among individual stocks, Allkem rose 4.2% after the International Finance Corporation agreed to lend the lithium miner $200 million to finance a battery-grade lithium carbonate project in Argentina.

New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index fell 0.26% to 11,095.8. (Reporting by Riya Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)