Goldman Sachs' strategists have unveiled eight of their top trading ideas for investors next year, including making bets against the future economic prospects of Spain compared to Ireland, which it said looks "better placed" than Spain to outgrow its debt problems.

In a global economics weekly report, which was published yesterday by Goldman's global economics, commodities and strategy research team, the bank's strategists predicted better-than-expected economic growth and lower-than-expected inflation over the next couple of years.